Yohan Park

M.S. Student, KAIST

john.a.park [AT] kaist.ac.kr

Bio

I am an incoming M.S. student at KAIST's Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Lab advised by Prof. Tae-Hyun Oh. I work on computer vision and multimodal learning with a focus on embodied AI. My interests span the perception-to-action stack, emphasizing 3D scene understanding and scene/task representations that support reliable long-horizon planning and execution.

Looking ahead, I aim to build human-like embodied systems that can generate high-level plans from instructions and perception, acquire new atomic skills, refine them at the action level from both observation and interaction using multimodal perceptual signals, and hierarchically compose these skills to execute the plans.

News

Feb 2026 : Received Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at IPIU 2026.

Feb 2026 : I am attending IPIU 2026 in person. See you in Jeju!

Nov 2025 : Starting March 2026, I will join the Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Lab as an M.S. student.

Aug 2025 : Completed my B.S. in Electrical Engineering (double major in Computer Science) at KAIST.

Dec 2024 : Received Best Student Paper Award at RiTA 2024.

Feb 2024 : I am attending KRoC 2024 in person. See you in Pyeongchang!

Publications

*: equal contribution. : corresponding author.
C: conference, J: journal, W: workshop, P: preprint, D: Domestic

[P1] DarkEQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Embodied Question Answering in Low-Light Indoor Environments thumbnail

[P1] DarkEQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Embodied Question Answering in Low-Light Indoor Environments

Yohan Park, Hyunwoo Ha, Wonjun Jo, Tae-Hyun Oh

Arxiv'25: arXiv preprint. (Under review)

[C1] Reactive Constraint Relaxation for Urban Environment Navigation thumbnail

[C1] Reactive Constraint Relaxation for Urban Environment Navigation

Jinwoo Kim*, Keonyoung Koh*, Seungsup Lee, Yohan Park, Daehyung Park

RiTA'24: International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications.
Best Student Paper Award

[D2] A Depth-Map-Based Semantic Label Transfer System for Embodied Agents Using Scene Memory </br> (장면 메모리를 활용한 체화 에이전트용 깊이맵 기반 시맨틱 레이블 전이 시스템) thumbnail

[D2] A Depth-Map-Based Semantic Label Transfer System for Embodied Agents Using Scene Memory
(장면 메모리를 활용한 체화 에이전트용 깊이맵 기반 시맨틱 레이블 전이 시스템)

Yohan Park, Hyunwoo Ha, Tae-Hyun Oh

IPIU'26: Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding.
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)

[P1] DarkEQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Embodied Question Answering in Low-Light Indoor Environments thumbnail

[P1] DarkEQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Embodied Question Answering in Low-Light Indoor Environments

Yohan Park, Hyunwoo Ha, Wonjun Jo, Tae-Hyun Oh

Arxiv'25: arXiv preprint. (Under review)

[C1] Reactive Constraint Relaxation for Urban Environment Navigation thumbnail

[C1] Reactive Constraint Relaxation for Urban Environment Navigation

Jinwoo Kim*, Keonyoung Koh*, Seungsup Lee, Yohan Park, Daehyung Park

RiTA'24: International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications.
Best Student Paper Award

[D1] A Study on the Stability of Humanoid Robots with Respect to Foot Structure </br> (휴머노이드 로봇의 발 구조에 따른 안정도 연구) thumbnail

[D1] A Study on the Stability of Humanoid Robots with Respect to Foot Structure
(휴머노이드 로봇의 발 구조에 따른 안정도 연구)

Yohan Park, Donglin Choi

KRoC'17: Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference, Future Robotic Scientist session.
Best Student Paper Award

Experience

Research Intern | KAIST

Apr. 2025 - Feb. 2026

Advanced Machine Intelligence Lab (Advisor: Tae-Hyun Oh)

Research Intern | KAIST

Dec. 2023 - Feb. 2025

Robust Intelligence & Robotics Lab (Advisor: Daehyung Park)

Projects

Graph-Guided LLM Test Generation
Diversity-based Test Generation for LLMs
Whole-Body Imitation for Mobile Manipulation
9-DoF Control via CVAE and Mobile ALOHA
Graph-Guided LLM Test Generation
Diversity-based Test Generation for LLMs
FSM-Based Manipulation
4-DoF Trajectory Control in Real Time
Whole-Body Imitation for Mobile Manipulation
9-DoF Control via CVAE and Mobile ALOHA

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) | IPIU

2026

Received the award at the IPIU 2026.

Best Student Paper Award | RiTA

2024

Ranked 1st among all papers submitted to the RiTA 2024.

Youngpro Global Startup Pitch Competition | Youngpro

2021

Special Award; served as team leader.

KAIST App Service Start-up Competition | KAIST

2021

Excellence Award (6th place out of 20 finalist teams); served as team CEO.

Best Student Paper Award | Korea Robotics Society

2017

Ranked 1st among all papers submitted to the Future Robotic Scientist Session at the KRoC 2017.

Education

Full CV in PDF.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Mar. 2026 -

M.S. Student

Advisor: Tae-Hyun Oh

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Feb. 2019 - Aug. 2025

B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Double Major)

Hansung Science High School

Feb. 2016 - Feb. 2019

High School Diploma